A lecture on the preservation of health / By T. Garnett.

  • Thomas Garnett
Date:
1800
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Credit: A lecture on the preservation of health / By T. Garnett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    perfect animals, the effedts produced by the action of dead matter on them, are more numerous, and are different f. in different living fyftems, but are in general the following—fenfe and mo- tion in almoft all animals, and in many the power of thinking, and other affections of the mind. The powers, or dead matters, which are applied, and which produce thefe fundtions, are chiefly, heat, food, and air. The proof that thefe powers do produce the living functions, is in my opinion a very convincing one, name- ly, that when their actions are fuf- pended, the living functions ceafe; take